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9 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE
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CHAP.
XIX.
Penalty on
Persons refusing
to act as
Visitors. |
appointed as such, pursuant to the Directions hereof, that shall wilfull
refuse
or delay to take upon him the said Office, shall forfeit and pay for every
such Refusal or Delay, the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, for
the Use of the School of that County where such Offence shall be committed;
to be recovered in his Lordship's Name, or at the Visitors Suit, before
the Justices of that County Court, by Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein
no Essoin, Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. XX.
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Passed 26th
October 1723. |
An Act for the Relief of Ann-Arundel County, and all Persons
concerned in the
Records thereof, heretofore Burnt. Lib.
LL. Nº4. fol. 606.
N.B. The Act of 1705,
ch. 1, having been for some Time expired, several Persons by
Means of Infancy, Coverture, Absence, &c. has not got their Deeds recorded
again, according
to the Directions of that Act, during its Continuance: This Act impowered
the Justices of
Ann-Arundel Court to act and proceed in all Matters therein mentioned,
as if Commission for that
Purpose had issued to them, according to the said Act, &c.
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CHAP. XXI.
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An Act giving Encouragement to make Hemp within this Province.
Lib. LL.
Nº 4. fol. 607. EXP. |
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To continue in Force 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. XXII.
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An Act for the Relief of Thomas Turner, of Charles County,
Gent. Christopher
Balrose, Thomas Cobb, John Gold, Thomas Beezley, and
John Ferrel,
of Ann-Arundel County; John Beldom and
John Hanley of Calvert
County; Joseph Gough, of Queen-Anne's
County; and John Clements, of
Dorchester County, languishing Prisoners.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 608. PR.
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CHAP. XXIII.
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An Act for the Trial of all Matters of Fact in the several Counties
where they
have arisen, or shall arise; the Continuance of Causes
in the Provincial Court,
and Adjournment of that Court. Lib. LL. Nº
4. fol. 612. EXP.
To continue 3
Years, &c. Continued 1727, ch. 6; and, together with its
Supplementary ACt
of 1724, ch. 17, expired
in 1731.
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CHAP. XXIV.
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An Act reviving and continuing an Act, entitled, i
An Act for Limitation of Officers
Fees; and for supplying some Defects therein.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 614.
EXP.
i 1719,
ch. 18, hereby continued 'til the 25th December 1724.
This Act was continued by 1724, ch. 21, §.
1, 'til the 25th December 1725, when it totally expired.
Hereby Sheriffs were restrained from taking or exacting more than one Execution
Fee,
in any one Year, for Executing for Levies and Officers Fees: But
by the aforesaid Act of 1724,
ch. 21, the Sheriff's Fee for such Executions is intirely taken
away.
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CHAP. XXV.
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An Act for the Payment and Assessment of the Public Charge of this
Province,
for this present Year One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Twenty-three; and for
confirming the Journal of the Levy in the Year One Thousand
Seven Hundred
and Twenty-two. Lib. LL. Nº 4 fol.
615.
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CHAP. XXVI.
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Ditto.
k 1719, ch. 5. |
An Act for the vesting and settling an Estate of Inheritance in
Fee-simple, of and
in a certain Parcel or Lot of Ground in the City of
Annapolis, containing One
Hundred and Twenty Feet in Length, (formerly by an k
Act of Assembly of this
Province confirmed to Robert Johnson, of Ann-Arundel
County, Ship Carpenter,
deceased) on Robert Gordon, of the City of Annapolis,
Merchant:
As also for vesting and settling an Estate of Inheritance
in Fee-simple, of and
in a certain Sand Bank that intersects a Tenement of
Land possessed by the said
Robert Gordon, and the Creek on the said Robert
Gordon, and his Heirs and
Assigns for ever. Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 616.
PR.
N.B. This
same Lot is settled on Horatio Samuel Middleton, and his Heirs,
by 1753, ch. 25. |
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